The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
By humanizing technology, we have this golden opportunity to reimagine how we connect with machines, and therefore, how we, as human beings,… — Rana el Kaliouby Copy Share Image
The more complicated the machine, the more problems I find it has. — Michele Scicolone Copy Share Image
When I finally bought one, the Buchla was my only piece of furniture. I lived with that thing. It was my boyfriend!… — Suzanne Ciani Copy Share Image
And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The nervous system functions in a fourth, unique way, as different as dreaming is from sleeping as sleeping is from waking. When… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
Screening telephone calls with a receptionist or the humbler answering machine is not a dishonorable thing to do. The warmest people in… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Vonnegut's earliest novels hint strongly at his familiarity with Wiener's work, The Human Use of Human Beings, especially his first novel, Player… — David Porush Copy Share Image
A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a… — Bill Janklow Copy Share Image
Well, Congress gave us a billion dollars to dig the hole, this gigantic hole. Bigger, much bigger than the hole in Geneva,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm… — Tristan Wilds Copy Share Image
What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I love doing 'Castle.' We pump out 24 episodes in 10 months, and we work long hours. We do lots and lots… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
I am big in Japan... heightwise! But, yeah, I started modeling there in my teens and into my 20s. I did Calvin… — Julia Voth Copy Share Image
The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home... and I mostly… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That one person that says "I heard your stuff and I really like this." It really touches my heart because it's what… — Tiffany Villarreal Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State.… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
One of the remarks made by farmers at their public discussion of these problems suggest that they are rapidly ceasing to think… — Kingsley Martin Copy Share Image
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women.… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. — Bill Gosper Copy Share Image
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Besides, the sense of safety offered by bottled water is a mirage. It turns out that breathing, not drinking, constitutes our main… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image